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Eddie the Eagle (2016)
Director: Dexter Fletcher
Cast: Taron Egerton, Hugh Jackman, Tom Costello
Genre: Biography, Drama-Comedy
About: The amazing story of a British man who all of his life wanted more than anything to be an Olympian. Eddie (the Eagle) Edwards, is the underdog who started ski jumping only a year before going to the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics. His journey to the Olympics was nothing short of miraculously as he faced nearly insurmountable odds at every step of the way.
The real Eddie The Eagle at the Winter Olympic games in 1988.
Review: I liked this, as the poster says it's a 'feel good movie'. I watched the DVD extras and the director said he decided to make this in the style of the 1980's feel good comedy-dramas. If you watch carefully you'll see one brief shot that pays homage to The Breakfast Club and another that nods to The Karate Kid. The music score is 80s style synthesizer, luckily it's actually good. There's also a smattering of 80s pop rock songs. Even actor Hugh Jackman got into the 80s grove with an authentic flat top haircut.
So as you might expect this is clicheified, and plays out like a rehash of Cool Runnings (1993), but like I said this is by design as it's retro film making.
Damn! that's scary... I don't know if that's from the movie or the Olympics but either way the movie does a great job of showing you what it's like at the top of the ski jump.
I thought the actor who played Eddie looked amazingly like him and nailed his facial actions to a tee. Though it's too bad the film makes Eddie look like he's mentally slow, he wasn't. The real Eddie has said he liked the film, but also said only 5% of his real story is included in it.
Which is to bad because a good film maker could have done a bio-pic and still got in a few good laughs to ski boots. I thought Hugh Jackman was good but I didn't like his character who's a washed up ex skier...who had been thrown off the U.S. team by Christopher Walken no less and now spends his days smoking and drinking in the bar...just like John Candy in Cool Runnings. In fact just for fun watch Cool Runnings and Eddie the Eagle back to back.
Well even though there are problems, it was still a fun movie.
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Eddie the Eagle (2016)
Director: Dexter Fletcher
Cast: Taron Egerton, Hugh Jackman, Tom Costello
Genre: Biography, Drama-Comedy
About: The amazing story of a British man who all of his life wanted more than anything to be an Olympian. Eddie (the Eagle) Edwards, is the underdog who started ski jumping only a year before going to the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics. His journey to the Olympics was nothing short of miraculously as he faced nearly insurmountable odds at every step of the way.
The real Eddie The Eagle at the Winter Olympic games in 1988.
So as you might expect this is clicheified, and plays out like a rehash of Cool Runnings (1993), but like I said this is by design as it's retro film making.
Damn! that's scary... I don't know if that's from the movie or the Olympics but either way the movie does a great job of showing you what it's like at the top of the ski jump.
I thought the actor who played Eddie looked amazingly like him and nailed his facial actions to a tee. Though it's too bad the film makes Eddie look like he's mentally slow, he wasn't. The real Eddie has said he liked the film, but also said only 5% of his real story is included in it.
Which is to bad because a good film maker could have done a bio-pic and still got in a few good laughs to ski boots. I thought Hugh Jackman was good but I didn't like his character who's a washed up ex skier...who had been thrown off the U.S. team by Christopher Walken no less and now spends his days smoking and drinking in the bar...just like John Candy in Cool Runnings. In fact just for fun watch Cool Runnings and Eddie the Eagle back to back.
Well even though there are problems, it was still a fun movie.
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